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Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg and is the mother of three children. She is the Program Director of Honor the Earth and the Founding Director of White Earth Land Recovery Project.

In 1989, LaDuke received the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which, in part, she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, she was nominated by Time magazine as one of AmericaÃ¢â¬â¢s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of ...

The Sarasota Herald Tribune reported today that not everybody in the Florida Republican Party is convinced that Katherine Harris will be the only candidate to run for the GOP Senate nomination next year.

On Tuesday, Harris announced that Ã¢â¬â after much speculation- she would in fact, run for the U.S. Senate against Democrat incumbent Bill Nelson.

Unlike the race for Governor to succeed Jeb Bush, no other prominent Republicans had entered the race yet Ã¢â¬â waitin...

Revelations that the Brevard county Sheriffs department, and the Melbourne police department were keeping records of peaceful political protestors have forced changes for the police, but community members are still wondering which agencies now have information about them. The surveillance was first discovered in January, when Jeff Nall, an organizer for a group called Patriots for peace organized an protest in the city of Melbourne on the day of president bushÃ¢â¬â¢s inauguration.

Our guest Linda Young is director of the Clean Water Network, Southeast. She says that three belching North Florida paper mills are going to be allowed to pipe their wastes to larger water bodies where people fish and swim, just because the companies claim that they can't meet water quality standards on the smaller rivers and creeks that they have already polluted and killed.

Young adds, "For years, the EPA has opposed the absurd idea that "dilution is the solution to pollution." The whole...

Today at the St Pete Tiger Bay club meeting on Snell Isle, St Pete NAACP president Daryl Rousson spoke about his brushes with the law, and came public about a proposal to have South St Petersburg become its own city, succeeding from St Petersburg. WMNFs Andrew Stelzer was there, and filed this report.

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Ã¢â¬ÅI am an angry black man on probationÃ¢â¬Â¦

St Petersburg NAACP chief Darryl Rousson open his speech by talking about an incident last year ...

In St Pete, the controversy stemming from the Pinellas county sheriffs killing of Jarrell Walker, an unarmed 19 year old black man continues. WMNFs Andrew Stelzer has more.

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Ã¢â¬ÅI wasnÃ¢â¬â¢t in Childs park I was homeÃ¢â¬Â¦

Joanne Brewer, lives in the Childs park neighborhood in South St Petersburg. In front of the St Pete police station this morning. She spoke about what happened to her on May 8th, spoke about how she was treated on May 8th, when c...

In may of 2002, President Bush announced the administration's plans to acquire the mineral rights for land located in the Florida Everglades - from the Collier Resources Company. Governor Bush was on hand for the announcement, and he used it during his campaign to drag about how he was protecting FloridaÃ¢â¬â¢s environment. But now the Interior Department's top investigator has issued a report saying that the government was trying to pay tens of millions of dollars more than the mineral ri...

A local group of activists is planning a protest tomorrow (June 9th; 4:30PM) at Media General/Channel 8/Tampa Tribune to demand coverage of the Downing Street Memo. That memo was written in 2002 by an aide to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In it the aide writes that the intelligence was being "fixed" to make the case for going to war in Iraq. Our guest was an organizer of the protest, Michelle Kenoyer. She says the media needs to cover the issue so the question of the Bush administration'...

In a 6-3 decision, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that those who smoke marijuana because their doctors recommend it to ease pain can be prosecuted for violating Federal drug laws, overriding medical marijuana statutes in 10 states.

Some medicinal marijuana advocates say the ruling is not as bleak as it sounded when the CourtÃ¢â¬â¢s verdict came town. They take solace in Justice John Paul Stevens closing statement of his opinion, in which he wrote that the democratic proc...